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Beacon Farms supplied us with a meat box for purpose of review. The review is our honest opinion, and Slow Food has not been paid for this review.
Animals – Beacon Farms animals are grass fed, native breeds, and often Ark of Taste animals.
Delivery – The meat box came via tracked courier, and was perfectly cold upon receipt.
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We – like you – at times read reviews which have nothing but incredible things to say about the product, and wonder what was the catch, or whether they were paid to write something positive, or asked to remove something negative.
The absolute truth is the meat that we received from Beacon Farms was some of the best we have tasted this year, and arguably period – the overall quality, butchery and flavour is second to none. The office team at Slow Food have already looked at making follow up purchases of their own.
We tasted
Rib eye steaks – Grass Fed, well marbled with beautiful savoury fat which we couldn’t stop eating. Deeply flavourful and tender. We cooked it medium to render the fat just a little.
Bavette steaks – We cut them crossways for a salad, they were remarkably tender for Bavette, and with deep intensity of flavour. For several, this was their favourite steak
Sausage rolls – Fat as a fist, meaty – and super substantial, dare we say one between two is enough? – the flavour of the pork shines through, with richness to the pastry, which flakes nicely.
Venison steak – We need to eat more venison! Tender, not so deeply gamey – we pan fried it pink, a touch of redcurrant jelly and stuffed it into a roll with watercress.
Bacon – Dry cure. Zero shrinkage. Zero white “liquid”. Just savoury pork which crisps to mahogany colour. The fat is savoury and as flavoursome as the meat. Not oversalted
Sausages (Traditional) – Beautiful balance of pork and herb. Texture was meaty but moist. One of our team declared the best sausage they had tasted!
Rack of lamb – Grass fed, sweet, delicious fat (which isn’t too intense in flavour) – the standout cut from what we tasted. The very best of British Farming and Butchery
https://beaconfarms.co.uk/
